Monday, August 12, 2013

Get the old YouTube buffering with YouTube Center

It’s been a while since YouTube added a new buffering method called “Dash Buffering”, and what it does is load your video by blocks, that’s why when you return to a previous one the video is reloaded, because that block was not buffered anymore. This works great with fast Internet connection, but not so great with an slow connection. So, YouTube center was created.

YouTube Center is a browser extension and script that adds a crazy number of customization options to YouTube, from the default size of the player, to showing the Share options when the video is over, to removing the Dash Playback.

Of course, there are some things you need to do to manage to install this extension.